Israel rejected the applications of dozens of medical patients in the
Gaza Strip seeking to travel for treatment in Israel or the West Bank this week
because the paper they were printed on bore the logo “State of Palestine”
rather than “Palestinian Authority.”…Guy Inbar, a spokesman for the Israeli agency that coordinates movement
and other activities with the Palestinian Authority, said that it had always
refused to accept such documents, and that the Palestinians had generally
complied and used the old letterhead…“We know that they have two kinds of
documents,” Mr. Inbar said. “Sometimes they send us, by mistake or in order to
challenge us, the State of Palestine signature.”

Omar al-Nasser, a spokesman for the Palestinian Health Ministry,
countered, “This is pressure for political reasons.”

And I am thinking: most NYTimes' readers presume that the phrase "pressure for political reasons" is an indictment against Israel for being nasty, vindictive and petty.It isn't.It is an admission by the Palestinian Authority that in order to pressure Israel for political reasons it will pressure, injure, damage and harm its own populace and violate their human rights all for a game of political reasons.^

About Me

American born, my wife and I moved to Israel in 1970. We have lived at Shiloh together with our family since 1981. I was in the Betar youth movement in the US and UK. I have worked as a political aide to Members of Knesset and a Minister during 1981-1994, lectured at the Academy for National Studies 1977-1994, was director of Israel's Media Watch 1995-2000 and currently, I work at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem. I was a guest media columnist on media affairs for The Jerusalem Post, op-ed contributor to various journals and for six years had a weekly media show on Arutz 7 radio. I serve as an unofficial spokesperson for the Jewish Communities in Judea & Samaria.